Re: Help understanding changed terminal behavior in Leopard?
Re: Help understanding changed terminal behavior in Leopard?
- Subject: Re: Help understanding changed terminal behavior in Leopard?
- From: Nathan <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:48:24 -0600
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Brandon Allbery <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 2008 Oct 17, at 18:31, Greg Parker wrote:
>>
>> On Oct 17, 2008, at 3:15 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>>>
>>> Also, I must admit to being almost completely naive when it comes to
>>> terminal settings. I just take what I'm given in most cases, but this
>>> sounds atleast partially related to a pet peeve of mine. I use screen, but
>>> text that is scrolled off is gone to me (although if I maximize the window,
>>> I'll get some back). I'd like to be able to scroll the terminal up to see
>>> what had passed, but I just see what was there before I started screen.
>>
>> screen's history doesn't show up in the terminal emulator's scrollback
>> because screen is using the alt-screen terminal capability. I think the only
>> way to make this work is to build your
>
> Even if you turn off alt-screen (which I do, as I detest it) you won't have
> scrollback: it's because it uses (n)curses to do updates, and curses is
> scrollback-unfriendly, doing things like using insert/delete line to scroll.
>
> That said, you can easily get at scrollback in a screen session: look up
> "copy mode" in the manual. This is kept per "window".
When in screen, press Ctrl-a then Esc, then you can up-arrow to view
stuff in the past (that's the copy mode he's talking about). I
haven't found a way to pgup/pgdown in copy mode. When you're done
looking around, hitting enter twice will get you back to normal.
~ Nathan
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